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@Static1 no problem! Yeah I don't like the bing app either, I literally only use it for nonsense searches so I can get the points lol. Happy Yakuza-ing!

@Static1 have you checked that you are logged into your Microsoft account on the various browsers? Near the top right of the search page it should show your MS profile pic if you have one (not your Xbox pic unless it's the same), a trophy with a circle that moves when points get added and the number of points. This is for PC/Xbox browsers. I'd just use Edge on Xbox though because it counts toward the PC Search and the Edge Bonus! 102 points in total from 90+12. But yeah you should see your points tally go up in that top right corner as you do the searches.

I think you log into the Bing mobile app when you install it but should show your profile pic down the bottom

If that's all good and the Rewards App on Xbox ain't showing you the search points, you might need to quit the app completely (Menu button over the icon and Quit) and reopen it and the total should have amended.

Cheers for the heads up! Deliver us the moon is next on my play list then!

Ahh sorry @FraserG , I only just saw this article because I got linked over from your April punch card article. I didn't know it existed when I created my "guide" in the forums. Not that mine is getting many views anyway lol.

I don't think I've doubled up on any information in the thread anyway but I've added a link to this article now so I hope it's OK and I'm not stepping on anyone's toes!

Any tips on the easiest/quickest achievement to pick up in that top 10?

I've played through gears 5, battletoads, Forza Horizon 4 and the Halo MCC campaigns already but didn't hunt for achievements in any so I'll only have the basic amount of achievements for a casual playthrough on those games. I think The Medium is XSX exclusive so I can't play that anyway and I'm not keen on starting Ori 2 for an achievement as I actually want to make some time to play that game properly.

I also seem to have issues actually activating this punch card at the moment too 🤔. I click activate but it just takes me out to the main rewards page and the quest still reads 0/2 complete (activating it should have been the 1/2)

edit: forget this, I activated it, I have a gears 5 achievement lined up too, something about completing 3 different types of multiplayer game...

Edit 2: I actually played one game of gridiron with bots on gear 5 and got an achievement for getting a touch down!

Gosh I am going for that outriders achievement. Seems like the first achievement you can get is completing the prologue. Was just going to use this for the 250pt punch card, 50pt daily achievement quest and to top up whatever punch cards need a a number of achievements.

But yeah, after a number of connection errors I managed to get in to the game. Played it for twenty minutes and now I keep getting connection errors again. Hopefully I can get back into it soon. Luckily you can skip about half of the cut scenes and all of the dialogue when you are actually playing.

Omg the puns, please never lose the puns 😂. They are one of my favourite things about this site, NL and PS. Always give me a chuckle even if they are a bit of a stretch sometimes!

@Kalvort ahh sorry, I haven't actually played it yet. I was saying I want to buy a physical copy one day but also benefit from a sale on the season pass. They only ever discount the bundles so it's more tempting to buy the bundle digitally on sale than it is to buy a physical copy + full price season pass. But yeah I kind of want to own it on disc so there isn't really an option for me!

The game looks good though, I heard it was a bit grindy but just playing through all of Z as a game is an enticing offer really. They did a decent write up of it over on Push Square:

https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/dragon_ball_z_kakarot

Ahh they never discount the season pass by itself for Kakarot. I want to get a physical copy one day but need to see evidence of a discounted season pass first.

Really weird for this to be the case. I'm guessing they are just shipping the vanilla RE7 disc? It's really hard to find the Gold version on Xbox One with the DLC included on disc. It's available second hand in the UK but is quite expensive unless you get lucky with an auction.

I'm guessing they are referring to the PS4 version as well though where both Gold and Standard are available in abundance.

@Krzzystuff ahh good stuff! Yeah it looks decent, I'd probably start with the first game in the series if I ever get into it. Like you, I have many contenders for my attention to play first!

@Krzzystuff Dragon Age has "ready to start" and you can actually play the game and get the quest before it's fully installed. The trade off is that you can't skip the cut scenes while it's installing

I literally just booted up Ryse, clicked continue campaign on my completed save. It loaded up one of the end game cutscenes I guess and the quest popped immediately

That Anna game is a decent but short game for anyone who has a 360. I wish it was BC though, I'd buy it again to own

I hope they add doge coin as a payment option. Such Xbox. Much value. So Series.

I wonder when the series X will be regularly available to buy from the Xbox store. I hope it aligns with when I hit the 2,632,500 reward points it will take me to buy it 😅

Just 2,600,000 to go now....

Edit: my maths is bad, it's actually 526,500 points to get a £450 gift card

It's a bit of a weird one. I've certainly been linked to other games in a series from playing a particular iteration on game pass. So I would spend money on a separate game in the same series.

I suspect I may be an outlier here though, I would never buy DLC for a game from a subscription. It doesn't sit right with me to spend money on content for a game that I am renting/subscribing to. I would have to buy the game in its entirety before I felt right about buying DLC for it.

With that in mind, I'd be less inclined to buy a game that is on game pass anyway so I would never buy the DLC for it either.

I think for some games, this means I won't get the full experience if the DLC isn't included on game pass.

But on some other games that I would want to own properly, (and these are rare occurences) I would have to buy the game even if it's on game pass. For example, I bought the Doom Eternal Deluxe Edition with the season pass even though the base game was on game pass.

This is rare though because I absolutely love the Doom series so I would want to collect the games physically to own anyway.

I just don't want to buy DLC for something I can't access when my sub runs out. I wouldn't have bought the Gears 5 Hivebusters DLC without owning the base game if it wasn't already included in my sub.

Great story, thanks for sharing! I think I only had one major save fluff up and it was in Super Mario RPG, I saved myself into a point of no return and didn't have enough health items to beat the final boss!

It will be set in Antarctica with DLC planned that will take you to Planet Mars and also the obligatory toy crossover with Micro Machines this time!

Joking of course but some of that would be cool to see

Ahh my 360 still has the blades on it! If I had been more bothered to fix the damn thing then I could be raking in that sweet sweet YouTube ad revenue right now 😂

I got my one X in November 2019. I obviously don't have the perspective of the newer consoles so I don't know what I'm missing.

I have really enjoyed my time with the Xbox One X and I am really glad I got it, I paid a fraction of the price I would have for a Series X a year later because I used various deals and vouchers to buy it. I've also enjoyed game pass ultimate which I bought 2 and a half years worth for £84.

The console runs a lot faster and smoother than my base PS4, maybe that's because of the better specs or the younger age of the console.

I wouldn't buy the One X full price and I wouldn't pay full price for game pass but for what little I have paid, I feel like it has been good value.

Happy birthday!!

Ahh I thought it would be really cool if you could record the dub in your own silly voices on your phone but then I watched the trailer and you just type what you want it to say and it gets dubbed over in a text to speech voice. Still could be quite funny

Wooo, finally time to get my Doom on! I've been waiting for all the DLC to release before I start Doon eternal! I didn't want to have a long break between the campaign and the DLC in case I forgot the controls!

Lol, snack: 30g of Pringles. I thought once you pop you can't stop! I know I certainly can't 😅

@unionjackboy haha sweet, normally I just do a few here and there but the recent big point punch cards have made me decide to go all in on them for a while to see how much I can earn each month. Currently on 27,000... Just need another 420,000 and I can use them to order a Series X 😂

@unionjackboy nice one! Glad it was of some help to you. I played one game of battlefield 1 the other day, it took like half an hour and I was ready to just give up on that quest after that. I'm glad I found that guide though because it allowed me to get the quest in like 20 minutes last night. Probably not worth it for 20 pence worth of points but it contributes to the quest completionist 1000 points so I thought I'd better give it a go!

@FraserG I found a guide to doing the battlefield 1 quest. I know there is only a day or 2 to go on it. Don't necessarily want to step on anyone's toes by copy and pasting it but it's at this link:

https://www.trueachievements.com/xbox-quests/battlefield-1?page=6

I chose the recommended game mode (rush) from the server list, played one game and identified the best squad and then joined that squad for the next game.

The quest didn't pop initially when I was in the best squad but after going in and out of the game pass app a few times it eventually did

I used a mouse and keyboard for gears tactics on Xbox one and I couldn't imagine playing it with a controller. I tried the controller briefly at the start but KB+m was just a better fit for me.

It's a shame that certain games with adapted controller schemes don't also include the original mouse and keyboard option such as Two Point Hospital and the Command and Conquer games on 360. It puts me off purchasing them

@FraserG There's a comic relief one too for 2000 points - 1000 for the punch card and another 1000 for getting 2 achievements

I don't think I've read the word "ass" so much in a single article before!

Edit: I just counted them and there is 102 instances of the word ass in this article, that's got to be a world record right?

Edit 2: I just did a "find in page" search to check and it came up with 110 which includes the article tags at the top of the page and the 3 times it's been mentioned in these comments (2x uses for the word assassins)

I went to see a monster truck show at a park in Southampton. It was far from The Simpsons' Truckasaurus Rex but it was still enjoyable and I'd love to see another one!

@VenomousAlbino haha don't worry it's more of a vindication than anything

@FraserG @VenomousAlbino lol same here! I didn't know whether to say anything or whether I was just being a bit thick 😅

Sweet, hopefully it's coming soon! I've been waiting for both DLCs to come out before digging in to Doom Eternal because I didn't want to have a long break between playing it all

I have to use a dehumidifier! Mould is the bane of my existence so I wouldn't even contemplate using a humidifier

This is one of the funniest games I've ever played and I've never even touched a mainline Borderlands entry. I do have the first game downloaded to try out but I've been told it's nowhere near as a funny as Tales

I'll definitely get this if it's under £50. Im trying to get rid of Lego so this will be a one off treat me thinks

@joey302 yeah 3 and Vice city would be sweet!

@Sakisa I was literally just thinking about darkstalkers resurrection and would love for this to become BC. Either that or a new collection of all the games

@ChopperCampbell I think the original Xbox San Andreas will work too but it just downloads the 360 version instead

MK9 is a good shout too, such a great game. It's definitely weird it hasn't been made BC

I think the HD port of San Andreas for the 360 is backwards compatible on Xbox One. I'm not positive though

It looks like the PlayStation studios logo is a bit bigger on the Xbox case

The "morning glory orphanage"?! Those are words I never thought I'd hear and am probably not comfortable hearing in the same sentence 😂🤦‍♂️

I just hope for more games to be added. I seem to remember their reasoning for stopping it was so they can focus on the release of the Series consoles and getting the current BC library up to scratch on them. So here's hoping they can start working on making more games available now that they're there with their previous goal

So is it possible to buy some gold right now at a reduced rate while the online code sellers are clearing their inventory of the old priced cards and then convert it 1:1 to GPU?

Or will the system detect that it was a code with a lower RRP and only give you the 3:1 conversion?

It would be really good if they ported the other older Wolfenstein games to Xbox too, everything from Spear of Destiny up to The one before the new order. That would be awesome to play through them all like you can with Doom

No jobs in IT support :/ which is unfortunately about all I'm good for! Cheers for letting us know!

@XBontendo nice one, that's good to know, cheers! I think I'm on the lower end of point earning. I just claim what comes from natural play. I did try and do it hardcore for a few days, doing all the bing searches, looking at recipes on Microsoft. Com etc but I've done these sorts of things in the past (myNintendo, JobSpotter etc) and just for me personally in my experience, the reward isn't really worth the work so I was keen to not get bogged down with getting points religiously. But I think this 10k point one is OK because I get to add a few games to my completed list and earn a tenner at the same time. Just playing through the Walking Dead Season 2 now, Season 1 was really good considering I don't watch the show!

@Braindeed holy crap! That would literally be amazing to just play games and "unlock" next gen. I'm gutted you couldn't get hold of one though, hopefully you can feel like you've offset the cost of the series X because you've bought games/films with points that you would have spent the same money on.

I actually "earned" a PS3 through cokezone about ten years ago. I used to drink tons of diet coke and I put the point codes in the website religiously. I finally got enough points after a year or 2 and there was no PS3 reward to claim. I e mailed them and they told me they didn't do "high value rewards" any more and they sent out an e mail to let us know. I'm notoriously bad at deleting e mails so I checked and hadn't received it and told them so. They said there was an error and I didn't get the e mail and that I could pick any console from a list they gave me! I chose a PS3 and it was posted to me so it worked out well in the end!